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on the north, the tip of newfoundland, the island of newfoundland, on the northwest corner in the little peninsula that juts up. there is a place called ans anse aux meadows. in the 1960s scandinavian archaeologists began to look in this area. now, it's interesting how they decided to do this. they looked at maps from the 14th and 15th century of this part of the world. primitive, to be sure. primitive to be sure. but these maps did show in gross outline something that looked like newfoundland. they then began to apply common sense, when you were sailing west from newfoundland, looking at tides and currents. and they began to come to this place called anse aux meadows. and they found the remains of the viking settlement on newfoundland. this is leif ericksson's settlement. parks canada, the canadian equivalent of the national parks service, administers this site. a remarkable place. i've been there several times. and i really -- if you have an opportunity. it's a little out of the way, that's for sure. but if you have the opportunity to visit it, it really is quite remarkable to come her
on the north, the tip of newfoundland, the island of newfoundland, on the northwest corner in the little peninsula that juts up. there is a place called ans anse aux meadows. in the 1960s scandinavian archaeologists began to look in this area. now, it's interesting how they decided to do this. they looked at maps from the 14th and 15th century of this part of the world. primitive, to be sure. primitive to be sure. but these maps did show in gross outline something that looked like newfoundland....
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they flew -- the airplanes we chheut t flew from newfoundland to ireland -- they flew 1,000 mes. it was like theirs waa wld r i . and so they were the first to actually make it across but you are talking about -- this is a us 1,000 plus mile flight for alcott and brown. allotted the mechanics of publicity. in 1927 you had movies a radio and newspapers and photographs and millions of lindbergh songs and -- lindbeghnd thertg e etn aet for this kind of fascination and world adulation. somody else? yes? >> you spoke about ruth elder. theegni yd tre we numr crossed the atlantic. could you say something more about them? >> there was an english woman who was royalty who flew across fr england for trying to make it to the united e kn the flying princess. you have to remember when i start rearching a new book the old detail start to go away so the r wll faatwa tf wow on w a new yorker named francis grayson. she tried to fly across in december and everybody was ins uida arngbe dead and she wouldn't listen and she had several the revolts within her crew and theayheefshe g t newfoundland and
they flew -- the airplanes we chheut t flew from newfoundland to ireland -- they flew 1,000 mes. it was like theirs waa wld r i . and so they were the first to actually make it across but you are talking about -- this is a us 1,000 plus mile flight for alcott and brown. allotted the mechanics of publicity. in 1927 you had movies a radio and newspapers and photographs and millions of lindbergh songs and -- lindbeghnd thertg e etn aet for this kind of fascination and world adulation. somody else?...
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what is newfoundland? no. kathy. what is new brunswick? mixed greens, $2,000. and that place is gretna green. kathy. mixed greens, $800. what is a butterfly? no. eddie or aaron? it was a horse-- a thoroughbred. racehorse. kathy. uh, mixed greens, $400. what are the green bay packers? uh, maine course, $800. what is paper? maine for $1,200. what is the missouri compromise? maine for $1,600. what is bowdoin? maine course, $2,000. and that famous woman is margaret chase smith. less than a minute to go now, kathy. what's for desert?-- $1,200. what is the mohave? desert, $1,600. you are now just $600 off the lead. i'll just wager $1,200. okay. here is the clue... aaron? what is... (beep) what is the negev? the negev. all right. three clues left. let's do desert for $2,000. the third desert is the great victoria. two clues-- (beep) well, we won't get to them. and you're still close to the lead, aaron--$19,200. eddie's still alive with that $600. here comes final jeopardy! authors. and we'll have a clue for everyone after this. authors. ready? as i'll ever be. break a
what is newfoundland? no. kathy. what is new brunswick? mixed greens, $2,000. and that place is gretna green. kathy. mixed greens, $800. what is a butterfly? no. eddie or aaron? it was a horse-- a thoroughbred. racehorse. kathy. uh, mixed greens, $400. what are the green bay packers? uh, maine course, $800. what is paper? maine for $1,200. what is the missouri compromise? maine for $1,600. what is bowdoin? maine course, $2,000. and that famous woman is margaret chase smith. less than a minute...
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i think this is probably some place in newfoundland, a remote shore of canada. we have come to believe that reaching out to others is a sign of weakness. was he asking for help and support as a vulnerability instead of a necessary strength. so if you agree with me that connections are the key to a good life, i would like you to explore with me how technology, and in particular, how that works can actually help. i would like to tell you about ties in the online network service. that is installed on every b-top computer in san francisco. this knowledge built on 20 years of connections to secure the future. it creates personal, private, secure online networks. here is what happened personal network looks like. and joe and her daughter created a network together, and what they did, they created a network in part because guildhall has an advance in her experience with cancer, and they wanted to coordinate the care and the connections and bring people closer to her in this important time. they identified and who they wanted to invite, and that is the only way you can
i think this is probably some place in newfoundland, a remote shore of canada. we have come to believe that reaching out to others is a sign of weakness. was he asking for help and support as a vulnerability instead of a necessary strength. so if you agree with me that connections are the key to a good life, i would like you to explore with me how technology, and in particular, how that works can actually help. i would like to tell you about ties in the online network service. that is installed...
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john's newfoundland. a polar bear hitches a ride to town on an arctic ice floe and decides to camp out on a cliff just steps away from a fishing village. >> we allow a polar bear to walk through an area, especially a populated area like st. johns because more than likely it will start encountering people. we would have shot it, or more than likely another person would have shot it. >> when the people of newfoundland need help with wild animals, they turn to 30-year wildlife enforcement veteran bill collins. >> i received a call at my office that there was a polar bear in the village. grabbed my drugs and my darting equipment and head down here to see if i can capture the bear or find some way to deter it from coming into the residential area. >> when bill arrives he sees a 3-year-old female polar bear perched 75 feet up a slippery slope. he immediately realizes his options are limited. >> when i got here, it was just obvious that the bear wasn't in a place where we were just going to be able to dart it an
john's newfoundland. a polar bear hitches a ride to town on an arctic ice floe and decides to camp out on a cliff just steps away from a fishing village. >> we allow a polar bear to walk through an area, especially a populated area like st. johns because more than likely it will start encountering people. we would have shot it, or more than likely another person would have shot it. >> when the people of newfoundland need help with wild animals, they turn to 30-year wildlife...
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you can see it sweeping off the newfoundland coast. -- the new england coast. you can see the showers moving across last night. a mixture of sun and clouds. 30% chance for it rain shower this afternoon. high temperatures between 70 and 75. the average high is 80. the record for today is 101. we will hold off on the oppressive heat for a while. north-northeast wind on the bay. a small craft advisory is in effect. 74 on wednesday. upper 70's on thursday and friday. low to mid 80's this weekend. >> two separate home invasions have one neighborhood concerned this morning. kim dacey joins us live with that story. >> there were two home innovations within a matter of minutes. this happened early on monday morning. both of those victims were elderly women. a woman awoke to a stranger is shining a flashlight in her room. her son was able to scare him off. there was another incident in which a woman encountered a man in her bedroom with a flashlight. neighbors say this is the latest in a string of five home invasions or attempted home invasions in the last five days. th
you can see it sweeping off the newfoundland coast. -- the new england coast. you can see the showers moving across last night. a mixture of sun and clouds. 30% chance for it rain shower this afternoon. high temperatures between 70 and 75. the average high is 80. the record for today is 101. we will hold off on the oppressive heat for a while. north-northeast wind on the bay. a small craft advisory is in effect. 74 on wednesday. upper 70's on thursday and friday. low to mid 80's this weekend....
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we have the same area of low pressure stalled off the newfoundland coast. it is sending spokes of energy along the back side. one went through last night. with a slight chance for rain shower into the forecast for later today. that is now moving across southern maryland and down into virginia. maybe something will popup behind that as we move into the afternoon. most of you will not see any rain today. a mixture of sun and clouds. high temperatures between 70 and 75. the average high temperature is 80 this time of year. the record for today is 101. if you take the boat out, a small craft advisory is in a fact. tomorrow, about the same. very little change. maybe a rain shower, a slight chance. we will turn the corner when we get into the weekend. upper 70's on thursday and friday and back into the 80's into the weekend. >> thank you. 56 degrees on tv hill. the orioles start a season against the red sox. keith mills will have sports. >> here is a look at last night's winning maryland lottery numbers. [ male announcer ] if you stash tissues like a squirrel sta
we have the same area of low pressure stalled off the newfoundland coast. it is sending spokes of energy along the back side. one went through last night. with a slight chance for rain shower into the forecast for later today. that is now moving across southern maryland and down into virginia. maybe something will popup behind that as we move into the afternoon. most of you will not see any rain today. a mixture of sun and clouds. high temperatures between 70 and 75. the average high...
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over the globe including big ones in braville, tan zane i can't and others they have off the coast of newfoundland in canada. just today statoil was the highest bidder in leases in mexico. first leases sold since 2010. this is not just an offshore play. last year stat oil brought brigham exploration for $4.7 billion giving them exposure to the ball can shale in north dakota. they have assets in the eagle ford shale, marcellus near pennsylvania, canadian oil sands. statoil gives you tremendous international offshore business and a big move into some of the hottest on shore plays we talk about in north america. plus stat oil is paying you. let's talk to the executive vice president of production north america of statoil to get a sense of where the company is headed. welcome to "mad money." >> thank you so much. >> after many years of my thinking you were slow growth, relying on norway have turned on the jets. what's driving your company's decision to be the fastest growing major in the world? >> you know, we have a very good position in norway. we have had it for quite some time. we wanted to keep t
over the globe including big ones in braville, tan zane i can't and others they have off the coast of newfoundland in canada. just today statoil was the highest bidder in leases in mexico. first leases sold since 2010. this is not just an offshore play. last year stat oil brought brigham exploration for $4.7 billion giving them exposure to the ball can shale in north dakota. they have assets in the eagle ford shale, marcellus near pennsylvania, canadian oil sands. statoil gives you tremendous...
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as of now it's a tropical storm about 585 miles from cape, newfoundland it was hurricane chris just a few hours ago. still pretty powerful considering how far north it is. moving away now to the north northeast to 14. still packing winds of 70 miles per hour. kind of early in the season for that by the way the national hurricane center is keeping an eye on an area of disturbed weather in the gulf of mexico which could become our next named storm and it would get the name debbie if it develops. >> shepard: good to see you sue, thank you. the supreme court today dealt a major blow to unions and could have a big impact come november. details on that ahead. plus, when a shark takes a bite out a surf ski the story usually does not have a happy ending. how the heck did the surf skier get out alive? it's an interesting story and it's just ahead as fox reports live tonight. r customers is important to any successful business. which is why at wells fargo, we work with you to get to know the unique aspects of your business. we can recommend financial solutions that can work for you that have he
as of now it's a tropical storm about 585 miles from cape, newfoundland it was hurricane chris just a few hours ago. still pretty powerful considering how far north it is. moving away now to the north northeast to 14. still packing winds of 70 miles per hour. kind of early in the season for that by the way the national hurricane center is keeping an eye on an area of disturbed weather in the gulf of mexico which could become our next named storm and it would get the name debbie if it develops....
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people in newfoundland see it start eight minutes before people in central china, because they're seeing it from different points in space. knowing how far canada is from china, and how fast venus is moving, you can calculate how far away venus is. so, during the two 18th-century transits, in 1761 and 1769, expeditions were dispatched all around the world to time the event, from the arctic to the south pacific. many of these intrepid scientists had remarkable adventures. you have to remember that much of our planet's surface was unmapped at that time. the english astronomers charles mason and jeremiah dixon observed the 1761 transit from south africa. their next assignment was surveying the mason-dixon line, which separates pennsylvania from maryland and virginia. captain james cook was sent to observe the 1769ransit in tahiti, and later in the same trip he became the first european ever to land on new zealand and australia. the scientists hoped to measure the distance to venus accurate to one part in 500, but it turned out to be impossible to time the event down to a second, because of
people in newfoundland see it start eight minutes before people in central china, because they're seeing it from different points in space. knowing how far canada is from china, and how fast venus is moving, you can calculate how far away venus is. so, during the two 18th-century transits, in 1761 and 1769, expeditions were dispatched all around the world to time the event, from the arctic to the south pacific. many of these intrepid scientists had remarkable adventures. you have to remember...
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the day a plane carrying amelia earhart and her two-man flight crew took off from newfoundland arriving the next day in britain. >> it's june 1928 and crew of airplane friendship comes ashore at southhampton england. >> osgood: she was the first woman to fly across the atlantic. but she was only a passenger not the pilot. a shortcoming she corrected in 1932 when she made a solo flight to ireland. >> there she is. safe and sound in ireland, having just completed the first flight by a woman across the atlantic. >> osgood: earhart was rewarded with name and ticker tape parades for her exploits except, that is, for her final one. 75 years ago this month, earhart, a navigator fred noonan, began a round-the-world journey broken up into a series of flights. on july 2, 1937, while headed toward tony howland island in the pacific, earhart radioed a desperate message to a coast card cutter, "we must be on you but cannot see you," she said. the gas is running low and unable to reach you by radio. then just a final fragment. we are running north and south. >> announcer: amelia earhart and her navig
the day a plane carrying amelia earhart and her two-man flight crew took off from newfoundland arriving the next day in britain. >> it's june 1928 and crew of airplane friendship comes ashore at southhampton england. >> osgood: she was the first woman to fly across the atlantic. but she was only a passenger not the pilot. a shortcoming she corrected in 1932 when she made a solo flight to ireland. >> there she is. safe and sound in ireland, having just completed the first...
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as it runs up the east coast, that's halifax, newfoundland. 45-mile-an-hour winds not going to make too much on the east coast but for the surfers, maybe surf will be up, kyra. >> chad myers, thank you so much. you can see the satellite image and the latest projected track for debby. cnn.com/hurricane. >>> an update in the beating death of kelly thomas. we're learning you there new video between thomas. and the judge is delaying arraignment, these two cops were both charged with thomas' beating and death. the court says the recording will shed new light and bolster the case to dismiss the charges. course, it comes after prosecutors show this video of fullerton police officer beating thomas at a preliminary hearing in may. according to reports, the new report shows the conversation between ramos and thomas just before this escalated. >>> a firestorm of epic proportions. those are the words of the colorado springs fire chief, speaking about the inferno that has already chased 32,000 people from their homes. it's now burned 6,200 acres and it's only 65% contained. jim spellman is there. >>
as it runs up the east coast, that's halifax, newfoundland. 45-mile-an-hour winds not going to make too much on the east coast but for the surfers, maybe surf will be up, kyra. >> chad myers, thank you so much. you can see the satellite image and the latest projected track for debby. cnn.com/hurricane. >>> an update in the beating death of kelly thomas. we're learning you there new video between thomas. and the judge is delaying arraignment, these two cops were both charged with...
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we have waters in northern newfoundland between maine and alaska where we have jurisdictional disputes in terms of transit that has prevented el and g port to be developed in maine because canada will not allow us to have free and unimpeded passage because, and i think they are on very lose footing here, we can't negotiate because we are not members of the convention. it is also with our friends, and those can be played against us because we have not signed on to the convention. >> i find it hard to believe we could not reach a bilateral agreement. it sounds a little far-fetched, but i would love to talk to you more about it. i get the impression that we feel like that if we were a party to the law of the sea treaty that it would cause us to have some savings as it relates to dealing with maritime issues. is that correct, admiral? >> i don't know that there is any influence on the -- >> well, we are talking about the cost. we have a lot of cost because we are not part of the treaty and have to do things in a very different way. it seems to me i have heard that throughout the testimony.
we have waters in northern newfoundland between maine and alaska where we have jurisdictional disputes in terms of transit that has prevented el and g port to be developed in maine because canada will not allow us to have free and unimpeded passage because, and i think they are on very lose footing here, we can't negotiate because we are not members of the convention. it is also with our friends, and those can be played against us because we have not signed on to the convention. >> i find...